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Re: Ending The Ethanal Subsidy
Reply #15 - Feb 14^th, 2014 at 4:13pm

Stratos wrote on Feb 14^th, 2014 at 3:22pm:

Bam wrote on Feb 14^th, 2014 at 3:15pm:

I disagree with the premise that we should use existing agricultural land to grow it. The highest-yielding biofuel crop is algae, processed into biodiesel. It produces about 50 tonnes per year per hectare. No plant crop comes close.

Yeah, admittedly I haven't looked into different fuel sources, and the literal millions of square kms of sugarcane in north QLD came to mind.

The sugarcane has use in biodiesel production.

Diesel is an ester of a fatty acid. It is produced by reacting fats and oils with an alcohol to replace the glycerol with the alcohol. Sugar cane can produce the alcohol component, both as ethanol from the sugar and also as methanol from the woody residue.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are only entitled to hold opinions that you can defend through sound, reasoned argument.

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